Improvement in the mode of attaching cabbi age-tops



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Attaching Tops to Carriages.

Patented July 21, 1868.

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WILLIAM HORROGKS, OF POUG'lEiKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

Letters PatentNo. 80,180, dated July 21, 1868.

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TO ALL WHOM MAY CONCERN: p

' Be it known that I, WILLIAM HORROGKS, of Poughkeepsie, in the countyof Dut'chess, and State of New York, have invented. a new and usefulImprovement in Attaching Carriage-Tops to the Rails or Bodies; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear,.audexact descriptionthereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and usethesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,-forming partFigure 1 represents a side elevation'of my improved carriage-topattachment.

Figure '2 is a transverse vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new manner of securing the carriage-slatirons to the rails or bodies of carriages, and consists in pivoting eachslat separately to a disk or knob by a separate pin or pivot. Therebytheincou venience andmechanical difliculty are avoided, which were alwaysexperienced when the slat-irons were fastened by means of one commonpivot, which pivot had to be made extraordinarily strong and clumsy,while now each pin can be made light.

' A, in the drawing, re'presents the pin projecting from the railing o-rcarriage-body to receive the lower ends of the slats. V p i B C D E-arethe four slats formed at the lower ends, respectively, of the four bows,F,,G,-H, and I, of the carriage-top. The number of slats and bows may,however, be varied.

The lo'werend of each slat is pivoted by a separate pin; a, to a disk orshoulder, 6, formed or secured on the pin in any suitable'manner. iThelower ends of the bows are or may be curved. Those infrontmf the pinAare bent backward and those in its rear bent forward, as indicated infig. 1, in which B and C are-the slats in front, and D E those in rear.-This is for the purpose of allowing all slats to stand in therequired-position, although their lower ends late to be readily foldedback, as indicated in red lines in fig.'1 I

The pins (1 a are fastened toeither the disk 6 or c.

slats 'on'their outer sides, as shown in fig. 2. p V t By not havingtheslats all connected by the'same pivot, the annoying rattling ofthe-carriage-top will .be avoided. The outer or covering-disks c arefastened to the pin A byme'ans'of a nut, d.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent l Securing theslat irons of a carriage-top ,to the supporting-pin A, by means of theseparate pivots a a, formed upon either of the disks 6 c, which fit overthe p The latter covers and protects the lower parts of the WILLIAMHOBROCKS.

Witnesses:

Jos. H. MARSHALL, A. L. BARCLAY.

in A, both;llisks being clamped together upon the slat:

irons by means of the nut 01, as herein'described, for the purposespecified.

